The State of Texas v. Jesus Christ

[j brown's body]

You are quite wrong to trivialize The Innocence Project.

Quite a long time ago now, Northwestern University Law School became famous for the seminar in which students were assigned to death row cases where convicted prisoners had appealed that they were innocent.

The students not only found that in a large number of cases the prisoners had been railroaded: they did the work that actually led to finding out whodunit most of the cases they investigated.

Because of this, a Republican governor of the state, Illinois, said that even though he believed in the death penalty, it was unconscionable to carry it out if the government didn't have a better track record in prosecuting the actual criminal, and he put a moratorium on executions.

Illinois released more people from death row than they executed.

 

[j brown's body]

Here's my basic problem with the death penalty. It doesn't prevent crimes, it's more expensive than warehousing a prisoner for 50 years, and ultimately it is chosen by a flawed vessel...humans.

How do religious humans justify it based on the 'Thou shalt not kill' concept. We the people are the govt, thus we are killing a fellow person when the govt executes someone.

I find it odd that the state mimics the killer.